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Dan Gillmor

Submitted by robertson.adams on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 10:48.
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Dan Gillmor is founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

He also directs the Center for Citizen Media, affiliated with Arizona State, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School, where he is a fellow. Gillmor is author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, a book that explains the rise of citizen media and why it matters.

A Partnership to Figure Things Out

Submitted by dale.peskin on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 14:40.
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We heard a lot about blogs yesterday and why they can't or shouldn't be fully trusted. Blogs are popularly characterized -- mostly by traditional news organizations -- as unreliable commentary or opinion that has not been fact-checked or subjected to the tradtional processes of standards and practices that news organizations use.

True, but missing the point. Most of the criticism, as well as the fear, stems from misunderstanding how blogs work -- and how they are edited and filtered.

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